Cocaine tourism boom: Brits flocking to South America to get drug 20 TIMES cheaper

ADDICTION: Experts say users could become hooked after trying the substance just a few times

They are flying to Colombia, Bolivia and Peru to buy the drug for as little as £3 per gram – 20 times cheaper than on the streets of London.

Black market travel agents even offer travellers the chance to make their own cocaine in infamous Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar’s home city of Medellin.

Dealers deliver to hotels and hostels – and say Brits are among their best customers.

One 26-year-old British backpacker, who wished to remain anonymous, said: “I’m aware this ‘middle-class drug use’ could be fuelling violence but it is one of the main reasons I travelled to South America. “It’s cheap, it’s good and everyone is having a great time – what’s not to like? I also did one of the ‘special tours’ in Colombia. You get driven out to the countryside in a jeep and make the product in the middle of nowhere.

“The ingredients they pump into it are disgusting, huge quantities of gasoline, but it won’t put me off hoovering it up at these prices!”